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In light of recent hackings of the biggest bitcoin exchanges, there has been a great issue regarding cybersecurity. In order to gain more insight into the subject we will now take a specific scope and focus on the security of bitcoins or as one may call it, Blockchain 1.0. Bitcoin, the peer to peer electronic…

Blockchain made easy For those of you who know very little on the subject, there are a few details which are important to get you started. Blockchain has three main roles, the first one is the birth of the online currency, Bitcoin (an online peer to peer currency). Secondly, the focus on smart contracts, digital…

A nightmare situation It is now believed that a fail-safe measure designed to protect systems from hardware failure did not work. Backup generators were bypassed, causing the entire system to shut down. And when power was restored, the system was turned back on in a haphazard way that ended up causing physical damage to the…

When we consider why a Zero Outage industry standard is necessary, we think about the IT processes, the platforms and cybersecurity as being essential to ensuring quality and reliability at all levels. But we also need to look at the people. It’s not enough for you to just hire the best and the brightest. Sure,…

Here’s a familiar scenario: your network is flooded with traffic from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack, issued by a botnet of zombie computers and devices controlled by a cybercriminal. The cyberattack takes your network, your websites and all your services offline. In the past, if you managed to mitigate the attack and keep…